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Geoffrey Harris House was formerly called Coombe House, built after 1761 on the site of an older house. An C18th ice-house remains in the grounds. The property went through a number of owners and from 1833 it was let to various tenants. During the tenancy of Mr Hankley in c.1844 the upper lawn was converted from rough commonland to gardens and shrubberies. The next owner was Edward Lloyd (d.1863); his son Frank who later lived here from1892-1927 was an important local benefactor. Remnants of the former ornamental gardens and mature trees are visible today. The house has been put to different uses, including a convalescent home, school and now a residential care home, renamed in 1988 after a consultant at St Lawrence's Hospital in Caterham.

George Green is a remnant of village green within Epping Forest and was once part of the grounds of Wanstead House (Wanstead Park). In the late C19th a small triangular drinking fountain was erected by the parishioners of Wanstead to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897), which has been moved a number of times as a result of road widening schemes. Today George Green is an open green space maintained by the Corporation of London's Conservators of Epping Forest, crossed by a single diagonal path and with a few trees, including three notable Spanish chestnuts (C17th-18th), ash and horse chestnuts.

George Yard had long existed as a narrow alleyway and was opened out in 1929-32 to provide a large paved courtyard as office development took place, becoming George Square. It has changed over the C20th as new building has taken place. In 1986-94 Barclays Bank built new premises here with the main entrance onto George Square, where 5 decorative reliefs commissioned for the Bank's previous premises at Lombard Street were mounted, showing old street signs of former properties and occupants of the site. The courtyard is largely hard landscaped.

Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park was created when the Bethlehem Royal Asylum, first located here in 1815, moved to Bromley in 1926. The land and buildings were purchased by Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, who presented it to the LCC for use as a public park in memory of his mother, Geraldine Mary Harmsworth. It was opened in 1934 by Lord Snell, then Chairman of the LCC. Within the park is the remains of the hospital building, which was converted into the Imperial War Museum in the 1930s. The park features mature trees and is an important green space in this crowded area of Southwark.

Gibson Square is the corresponding square to Milner Square to the north, and was the first of the two squares to be built as part of the Milner-Gibson Estate. In 1823 Thomas Milner Gibson of Theberton Hall in Suffolk had obtained a licence to build on the land, which was part of the Manor of Barnsbury. The central garden was provided for the use of residents of the new houses until the 1930s when upkeep passed to Islington Council and the garden was open to the public. In 1970 a ventilator shaft for the new Victoria Line was built in the gardens, its design resembling a classical temple with a domed roof in order to better harmonise with the garden, which has ornamental beds with roses, lawns, and a variety of trees.

Gillespie Park is on former railway sidings that dated from the 1870s and ceased to be used by the 1960s. The unused land became overgrown but following pressure from local people was created as a public park in 1981. The land was initially leased to Islington Council by British Rail but later sold to the council after a campaign that saved the park from housing development. The park is Islington’s largest nature reserve and is home to Islington Ecology Centre, an award-winning environmentally-friendly building constructed in 1992.

The Worshipful Company of Girdlers has had a Hall with a garden on this site since 1431. Due to the proximity of the Guildhall, Basinghall Street was a favoured location for the Livery Companies. The first Girdlers' Hall was destroyed in 1666 and rebuilt in 1680/81, but this building was destroyed by bombing in 1940. The new Hall re-opened in 1961 with a garden at the rear that contains a mulberry tree grown from a cutting of a tree probably planted in 1750. The garden has lawn surrounded by paving stone paths with perimeter shrubs, a number of tree including fig, and a small fountain with cherubic figure. The Corporation of London owns the public space in front of the Hall. The garden has won many awards, the latest being the Livery Hall Trophy 2010 in the Flowers in the City Campaign organised by the City of London.

The core of Gladstone Park was formed from parkland of Dollis Hill House, once an extensive estate. The house that remains in the park today was built in 1825. Owned by the Earl of Aberdeen in the late C19th, the Liberal Leader William Gladstone was often a guest here. In 1898 the house and land south of Dollis Hill Lane were acquired by Willesden Rural District Council and laid out as Gladstone Park, opened by the Earl of Aberdeen in 1901. Many fine parkland trees remain from the earlier landscape and around the house, retained features include the lake and walled garden. Additional features included an open air pool opened in 1903, now a bowling green, flower beds and a formal terraced garden. A Holocaust Memorial by the artist Fred Kormis was erected c.1970 in the north-west.

Glebe Court Estate was a post-war development by Mitcham Borough Council providing high quality social housing. It has been praised for its good landscaping, with green space on the road frontage as a buffer to the main road, and landscaped areas between and behind the buildings. The estate has long had an active Residents' Association, which in 1998 set up Glebe Court Management Organisation that continues to manage the estate, including gardening and caretaking. It has been active in a campaign against loss of trees on the estate. Glebe Square Estate, built by Mitcham Borough Council by 1956 on land to the west of Glebe Court Estate and providing 36 properties with a central green space, is also managed by Glebe Court Management Organisation.

Gledhow Gardens are private communal gardens provided for residents of the houses that surround it, which were built as part of the Gunter Estate development that took place from 1840s onwards. Named after Gledhow Hall in Yorkshire, like other streets on the estate this reflects the Gunter family connections in the West Riding. The garden was laid out with lawns, flowerbeds and trees. Lessees of housing abutting and those in nearby Bolton Gardens had access, on payment of rent for its upkeep. It is now owned by the residents.

The 1st edition OS map of 1867 shows the area as farmland and it continued to be in use as such until housing was built in the C20th. The area was called Glentrammon Park until 1887 when the land was purchased for housing, built in 1909. The park, bordered by hedges and small trees, is divided into two fields, the boundary between them possibly a relict field boundary with shrubs and small trees. The park has the best views of surrounding countryside in the borough.

Globe Road Open Space is a remnant of the former graveyard of Globe Road Wesleyan Chapel. The site was acquired by the Craft School, which occupied the neighbouring building, and it was laid out as a memorial garden in 1926, many of its features the work of craftsmen. Today the small oblong ground has York stone paving, rose beds to the south and a dense evergreen screen to the north. C19th railings remain on the north and west and the entrance gate overthrow has a bronze plaque depicting 'The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green'. There are a number of headstones and a central chest tomb to 'Master George Henry Spooner...who died 27 June 1822 aged 8 months'.